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Detour – Digitally Remastered
He went searching for love… but Fate forced a DETOUR to Revelry… Violence… Mystery!
Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour begins when hitchhiker Al Roberts (Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald). When Haskell suffers a fatal heart attack, Roberts, afraid he’ll be accused of murder, disposes of the body, takes the man’s clothes and wallet, and begins driving the car himself. He picks up beautiful but sullen Vera (Ann Savage), who suddenly asks, “What did you do with the body?” It turns out that Vera had earlier accepted a ride from Haskell and has immediately spotted Roberts as a ringer.
Holding the threat of summoning the police over his head, Vera forces Roberts to continue his pose so that he can collect a legacy from Haskell’s millionaire father, who hasn’t seen his son in years…
Although made on a small budget with bare sets and straightforward camera work, “Detour” has gathered much praise through the years and is held in high regard. In 1992, “Detour” was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
“Haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir.”
-Roger Ebert ★★★★
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